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The dramatic changes social networks have introduced gives organizations in our sector the opportunity to leverage the age of connectedness in powerful ways.   We have the potential to create and implement innovative programs that can effect social change.  The promise of innovation brings the assurance of change, and change is a challenge in any environment.  In this ask the expert session, we’ll talk with Seth and Beth about what makes change possible in our organizations and how we can use this landscape to achieve our missions, excite donors, please the board & the grantmakers, keep staff  happy, AND make sure the budget bottom line isn't in the red.

Join us for our November Ask the Expert when we'll talk with Seth Godin, joined by NPTech's Click and Clack -- Beth Kanter and Holly Ross.  We'll talk and answer your questions about social media and innovation. The chat discussion will be moderated by Roxy Allen.

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Seth Godin:
* writes the most popular marketing blog in the world;
* is the author of the bestselling marketing books of the last decade;
* speaks to large groups on marketing, new media and what's next;
* and is the founder of Squidoo.com, a fast-growing recommendation website.

You can read his wikipedia bio, reviews of his seminars and what Google thinks of him.

Beth Kanter is the author of Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. A frequent contributor to many nonprofit technology web sites and magazines, Beth wrote the chapter about ROI in "Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders," edited by NTEN. A much in demand speaker and trainer, and
she has trained nonprofits in social media techniques literally around the world. In 2009, she was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most influential women in technology and one of Business Week's "Voices of Innovation for Social Media." In 2009, she is serving as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Lucile and David Packard Foundation.  Her book, tentatively titled "The Networked Nonprofit," and co-authored with Allison Fine, will be published by Wiley in 2010. Read more about Beth here.

Holly Ross, Executive Director, NTEN. Holly has spent more than five years at NTEN, combing through all the technology fads and listening to the NTEN community to line up the webinars, conferences, and research that will help members use technology to make the world a better place. From ubiquitous access to technology leadership to social media trends, Holly brings the wisdom of the NTEN crowd to the nonprofit sector.

Holly is also editor of "Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders," available from Jossey-Bass.

Holly came to nonprofit technology after working for social change at CALPIRG and during her college days at UC Berkeley.  In between meetings and emailing, Holly tries to raise her 3 year old daughter and occasionally pays attention to her fabulous husband.

Roxy Allen is extremely passionate about the social sector, how people work together, and not business as usual.  She trains in leveraging technology to increase personal productivity, creating great workplaces, and managing organizational conflict.  She has worked at the Great Place to Work® Institute on the team that produces Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for in America list.  Right now she works for an international development association in Washington, DC, called InsideNGO, a member of NTEN.  You can connect with her on her blog.

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